The Hitch-Hiker
by Ida Lupino
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, Jos? Torvay, Sam Hayes, William TalmanDirector: Ida Lupino
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ROAN
Movie Reviews of The Hitch-Hiker
Movie Review: Taut ,tart and tense noir masterpiece
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is proof positive that you do not need a lavish budget ,colour ,star names and a lengthy running time in order to make a quality movie.Without the "benefit" of any of the above the picture is an utter gem .
Its simple but compelling storyline sees 2 friends played by Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy on a fishing trip and they stop to pick up a hitcher ,a gaunt and slightly creepy looking man who just happens to be a killer .His victims are those unwise and unwary enough to give him a lift .He forces them at gunpoint to drive him over the border to Mexico where he proposes to make his escape from justice .He must continuue to exercise power over the 2 men while escaping the police manhunt .
Ther movie benfits from crisp monochrome location photography of the stark landscapes of the American South West and a trio of strong lead performance especially from Frank Tallman as the killer/hitcher , a man able to sleep with one eye open owing to a paralysed eye.The script is lean and economical and the direction of Ida Lupino helps make this a minor noir classic a movie without the slightest hint of superflous fleash on its taut and powerful frame .Lupino for my money was the best female director ever ,bar none and this stands as fitting tribute to her quality behind the nlens
Dont miss if you like tense well made thrillers
Summary of The Hitch-Hiker
Ida Lupino, Hollywood's sole female filmmaker of the 1950s, directs an all-male cast in a taut, 70-minute thriller. Frank Lovejoy and Edmund O'Brien are two war buddies taking a break from the wives for a Mexican fishing trip; a hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a crazed killer wanted in nine states (William Talman, later the perennially defeated district attorney on Perry Mason) who forces them at gunpoint to drive him through the desert. Talman's Everett Myers is a fascinatingly abstract creation, filmed by Lupino first as a discorporate flurry of hands and feet, then as a satanic figure whose grinning, key-lighted face seems to float by itself in space. With his paralyzed right eye (he sleeps with it wide open), Myers may represent the return of the fascist evil the two men confronted during the war; he may also represent something inherently violent in the American male that, having been liberated by the war, has to be faced down and defeated by the two vets before they can return to a normal life. Lupino's use of the desert setting, rich with associations of nuclear devastation, seems to look forward to the science fiction films that would flourish later in the decade. --Dave KehrDocumentary DVD Video
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